Notes

1. Japanese word list generator

<blockquote> MWAHAHAHAHA! I just pulled off a really neat Emacs
hack. &lt;grin&gt; It's Japanese-related. So I've been
translating this document for the past two days. It's really slow
and boring work because there's no soft copy, so I have to write
the characters (blurry because this is a photocopy of a
photocopy) using the mouse, and hope I don't make any mistakes
along the way. In the course of copying down kanji (Chinese
characters) for later translation, I created a spreadsheet with
two columns: the kanji word and the number of the slide it
appears on. Then I exported that to CSV, opened that in Emacs,
and wrote an Emacs Lisp function that split the words up into
individual characters. I passed this through
shell-command-on-region to sort and uniquify the characters. I
then went back to the CSV with words and slide numbers, wrote
another Emacs Lisp function that searched edict (Jim Breen's
electronic Japanese dictionary) for the words, split the word
into individual characters, and filed the word info under each
character, also marking words that were not found in the
dictionary. After that, I wrote yet another function to add table
markup and individual character definitions to each line, then
copied the result into an HTML file. </blockquote>

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